On Sat, 2016-09-10 at 16:53 -0400, rjs wrote: > Tanu, > Thanks for your response and good troubleshooting ideas. > You wrote: > > > > First of all, home-directory-on-NFS *should* be supported just fine. > > The whole purpose of using the /tmp/pulse directories is to make this > > use case work. > Here's what I found. > The first place I looked was in the ~/.pulse directory and found an > interesting > problem. No matter how many of our workstations I logged in to, there was > still > only one set of asdfasdfasdf:xxx files, hence only one asdfasdfasdf:runtime > link. > So, when I logged onto a workstation, it was the only one that had a valid > link to > a /tmp/pulse-yyyy directory! This is the case for every user. I now suspect > this is > an operating environment issue and not directly related to Pulse. Another > data point is that I went to another network I work on with the same Linux > environment; however, it just has a simple NFS mount for my home > directory. On that network, I had many host ID entries in my > ~/.pulse area. > I need to find out more about how our user accounts/directories are > managed, I believe > there is something having to do with LDAP involved. I am wondering which > machine belongs > to the ID I find in everyones ~/.pulse directory. > Do you know how that ID is generated. The machine-id comes from /etc/machine-id nowadays, but since you use older software, it might be in /var/lib/dbus/machine-id (this thing originated from D-Bus, but it turned out to be useful elsewhere too). > One other thing. I was successfully able to operate in system-wide daemon > mode, so > that is a viable option. However, I had a problem automatically launching > it from > /etc/rc.d/rc.local at boot time. I used the same command that I used as > root from the command line. > In /var/log/messages it reported that it could not create a /var/run/pulse > directory, which > already exists and is owned by pulse. Not sure why it works from the > command line > as root by not at boot. I don't have ideas about that problem. --Â Tanu
